Improvement in grain-cradles



inFig. 3 has been used.

UNITED STATES ATENT FICE* ELIJAH WILCOX, OF BELLINGHAM, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND D.

NOURSE, OF GAMBRIDGEPORT, MASSACHUSETTS.

lMPROVElVl ENTIN GRAlNY-CRADLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 29,316, dated July '24, 1860.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ELIJAH D. WILCOX, of Bellinghnm,in the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Grain-Cradles, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference bein g had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this speciiication, in Which- Figure l is a view of grain-cradle with my improvements attached; Figs. 2 and 3, details to be referred to hereinafter.

My present invention relates to the adjustment ofthe fingers of the cradle; and it consists in so connecting the bracerods, (D of these drawings,) which hold the lingers in their required positions with respect to distance `from the snath, with the snath thatthe ends of these rods may not project beyond the back of the snath and incommode the person using the cradle.

'That others skilled in the art may understand and use my invention, I will proceed to describe the manner in which I have carried out the same.

In the said drawings, A is the snath, (the Scythe beingremovedg) B,the head-bar; C,the lingers, which are held at the proper distance ,from each other by tubes a, ot' wood, and a rod, b, which passes through each linger and tube, and is tightened up by a screw-nut, c, at one end of it. The distance at which the point of each linger C shall be held from the front side of the snath is regulated by a bracerod, D, having an eye, e, at one end, which embraces the rodv b near where it passes through the finger. The other end oi' the rod D is oonnected with the snath in such a manner that the rod may be moved iu or out longitudinally, and then be secured iu place. For this purpose (of securing the rod D) the device shown Thisis ashortstraight pin,f, which is screwed into the top side of the [snath A. It has a hole near its outer end,

through which the rod D passes. It also has a screw on its end, on which itsathumb nut, g. A loose collar, i, embraces the pin below the nut g, and is pressed down onto the rod D and holds it secure by turning down the nut g. This pin is somewhat flattened ont at the point where the hole is made through it. This arrangement answered so far as the adjusting and securing in position ofthe tingers C; but it will be seen that as the fingers are drawn iu toward the snath the ends m of the bracerods D project beyond the rear side ot' the snath, where they incom mode the person rising the cradle, and are liable to tear his clothes and bruise his leg.` To avoid this I employ the fastening h, Fig, l, (shown detached in Fig. 2,) which is a long pin or rod With its head bent up at right angles at o. It has a screw, p, at one end, which is screwed into the front side (or that next the lingers) of the snath, as shown in Fig. 1, so that the head through which the rod D passes projects in some distance toward the lingers C. This permits the rods D to be adj usted without their ends projecting beyond or even coming quite out to the snath, while the fastenings themselves are more out ofthe way than when they occupy the position shown in Fig. 3-on the top side of the snath. rThe rod D passes through a hole, 1', Fig. 2, in the head ot' the rod h, and is secured by a collar, i, pressed down by a thumb-nut, g, in the same manner as before described, and shown in Fig. 3.

NVhat I claim as myinvention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The bent rod h, projecting from the snath toward the tingers C, substantially in the manner and for the purpose specitied.

ELIJAH D. WILCOX.

Witnesses z SMrrn BURLINGAME, HENRY GooK. 

